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noun

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Recent Examples of hot-button
Noun
While a wide range of filmmakers have embraced the potential of AI to enhance production and bring about efficiencies, the technology has been a hot button for unions given the potential risk to industry jobs. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2025 But given the enduring complexities of Israeli-Palestinian coexistence and the cultural hot button that campus protests became over the past two years, Hollywood — like much of America — is not in lockstep on how to call for peace in Gaza. Chris Lee, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025 But aid to Ukraine has become a hot button in Washington, splitting lawmakers, some from the same party. Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025 Created by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield in 1978, the ice cream brand has long been known for speaking out on hot button issues, key among them climate change. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hot-button
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot-button
Adjective
  • Crawford says the meetings were contentious, but Ekard was always cordial yet firm.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2025
  • That series has been contentious, dramatic and super close — Game 5 was decided by three points, Game 4 by one and Game 3 by two.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Centering African-American stories and characters, DuVernay’s films frequently come into contact with the third rails of American history, such as incarceration, segregation and slavery.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2025
  • Social Security is the third rail of American politics Social Security advocates say Trump and Musk, the tech billionaire, are learning a lesson absorbed by many politicians and policy wonks before them.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Fifty years ago on April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War ended with North Vietnamese troops taking Saigon, bringing an end to what had been America’s most controversial war.
    Stan Godlewski, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2025
  • Long a controversial figure, Brand has fallen out of public grace amid reports of alleged rape and assaults.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 3 May 2025

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“Hot-button.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot-button. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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